Reply #54: CentCom is wounded and lashing out

[jmcgowanjm]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Nearly 17,000 service
members medically evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan
are absent from public Pentagon casualty reports, according
to military data reviewed by United Press International.
The Pentagon said most don't fit the definition of casualties,
but a veterans' advocate said they should all be
counted.

Put this w/ the 7000 official WIA list and you get the
25000 WIA's that I had earlier est'd.

10/1 kill ratio and you have at least 2500 US KIA.

With other info est. the KIA # could easily be put over
3500.

Mafkarat al-Islam, 16 September 2004, 11:55am Mecca time.

Fierce fighting broke out on Thursday morning between
Iraqi
Resistance forces and US occupation troops in the city
of ar-Ramadi
west of occupied Baghdad. The local correspondent of
Mafkarat al-
Islam reported that the fighting erupted at about 7:00am
local time
and was still raging when he filed his report, which was
posted at
12:55 local time (11:55 Mecca time) on the Mafkarat al-
Islam
website. There have been several casualties among the
joint US-
south Korean forces, he reported.

An informed source told Mafkarat al-Islam that during the
last three
days of combat, Resistance fighters had captured a number
of US
occupation troops and south Korean soldiers. The
Resistance had
also taken possession of a Humvee and driven it off to
an unknown
location.

Iraqi sources report that operations of the Resistance now
being
carried out in ar-Ramadi are of a different type than
those mounted
earlier. The Resistance in nearby al-Fallujah are blocking
and
smashing any American attacks forcing them to withdraw.
But the
Resistance in ar-Ramadi are waging a protracted war of
attrition,
they say, trying to draw in the occupation troops, giving them
the
illusion that they have won and then springing sudden
surprise
attacks on them that inflict large-scale losses in their
forces.
The correspondent noted that the largest movement of
US supply
convoys and patrols are now those headed for ar-
Ramadi.